Deirdre Connolly

Software engineer with experience in all
levels of the web application stack, specifically interested
in creating highly performant front
end experiences built on elegant APIs. Passionate about tools and automation
that make developers more productive.

Tools

Senior Software EngineerBrightcove | July 2014 - Present

Developed and released new VideoCloud Studio, specifically
Upload module with fast multipart video uploading and ingestion
as a client side experience, and shipped fully HTML5 in-browser
image capture from video and ingestion in Media module.

Managed Node.js backing server for new Studio platform, including
service proxies and AWS temporary authentication logic for clients.
Migrated from dedicated hardware to scalable AWS-based architecture
including continuous integration and deployment.

Ported module builds to new shared, versioned and extensible Grunt-based build
configuration that allowed fast migration from Coffescript to ES6 with minimal changes.
Migrated all modules from Require.js to CommonJS module syntax built with
Browserify.

Software EngineerAkamai Technologies | Feb 2013 - June 2014

Worked on Property Manager, a web application
enabling customers to configure complex Akamai Edge
Network products without support. Front end
engineering work with JSMVC/CanJS, Sass,
and backend work usingJersey/JAX-RS/JAX-B and Spring

Contributed to continuous integration and deployment
infrastructure, moving the team codebase from Perforce
to git hosted by Atlassian Stash and builds/deploys with
Jenkins, now being rolled out across the organization

Drove improvements in dev tooling and automation,
including new static dev environment with Grunt and
NodeJS w/ Express with automated i18n generation,
unit tests, style and script compilation on the fly